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Date:      Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:52:19 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        peter@netplex.com.au, smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: beware! -current under SMP is "not looking good".
Message-ID:  <199804050752.RAA27949@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>The latest time commit has busted -current under SMP.  I'm not sure of the 
>exact circumstances, but it causes a hang when ntpdate is run.  The process
>sits in the "running" state but doesn't gain any cpu time.  Trying to break
>into DDB causes a deadlock.

This looks a bit like the loop in nanotime().  It's only in the latest
commit.  I can break in with ddb, but my ddb keeps interrupts disabled
to prevent timers and other things changing underneath it.

>The code just prior to this was also broken.  select() wasn't working 

Only the nanosleep() bug, I hope.

Bruce

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